# What music was playing when you lost your virginity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069 "2012-11-15T08:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/61 "2012-11-16T04:54:11Z")
_Too Drunk To Fuck_, The Dead Kennedys. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/62 "2012-11-16T05:03:19Z")
We were in my dorm room. I was playing Dan Fogelberg’s album, Innocent Age. Very mellow stuff. The song during the actual deed was _ **Longer** _. I remember vividly because the last line in the song is, “I am in love with you.” We had just finished. The song was just finishing, and she whispers that line in my ear as it’s being played, “I am in love with you.” Scared the hell out of me. Uh-oh, what now? You see, she was visiting from 3,000 miles away: she from upstate NY, and me in southern Cal. She was my “childhood girlfriend” (meaning we held hands, big whoop) but I hadn’t seen her in 6-7 years. She visits, deflowers me, and then says she’s in love with me?? WTF?? ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/63 "2012-11-16T05:10:47Z")
No music. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever done it to music. Never thought about it until now. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/64 "2012-11-16T08:21:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Never thought about it before; it happened late one Saturday night in September 1975, in the Chess Booth at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I don’t recall any music playing at the moment, but not long prior to the Big Event a couple of guys were singing Tom Lehrer’s “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” around a bonfire; the next morning, a bagpiper was playing “Mairi’s Wedding” as she and I said our goodbyes (never saw her again, either). In the _ **Chess Booth** _?!? > [@InternetLegend](#): > > It was an eight-track tape of Jethro Tull. It may have been a greatest hits type of thing, but I vividly remember hearing, “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day” more than once and vaguely being aware that the eight-track was repeating. Oh, Jethro Tull, 8-track tapes, looping – soundtrack of my youth. > [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > _Too Drunk To Fuck_, The Dead Kennedys. Har! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/65 "2012-11-16T15:13:05Z")
I don’t remember what was playing during the act itself but right afterwards, while huge deception was setting in, this song came on the radio, and I will never forget it (especially what happen afterwards). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBX5htDMeKU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBX5htDMeKU) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/66 "2012-11-18T11:16:52Z")
_A Momentary Lapse of Reason_ by Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/67 "2012-11-18T17:38:59Z")
Pink Floyd’s _Ummagumma_ album. I kind of wanted to say “Here Come the Bastards” by Primus, but that was another time later that year. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/68 "2012-11-18T19:10:51Z")
Yackety Sax. Should have been a clue. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/69 "2012-11-18T19:20:26Z")
_Rough Boy_ by ZZ Top. My then-boyfriend was obsessed with them and had a mix tape he played all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/70 "2012-11-18T21:02:08Z")
No music, but we had just seen “American Pie” in the theater. Her supposedly high morals were pretty easily swayed by an incredibly stupid movie and I lost a lot of respect for her because of that. I was happy that the error was in my favor, sure, but I almost immediately realized that things were better under the “…but blowjobs don’t count” rule. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/71 "2012-11-19T00:43:16Z")
It was an album by Chad & Jeremy (and yes, it was that long ago). In my mind, though, it was the main theme of Tchaikovsky’s _Romeo and Juliet._ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/72 "2012-11-19T00:58:11Z")
March 1968, and I actually remember it was a Wednesday afternoon. Both of her parents were considerate enough to have full-time jobs, so we were in the comfort of her bedroom. The music would have been pop-rock. The only two albums I can remember us listening to during those afternoons were Paul Revere And The Raiders (Midnight Ride) and Gary Lewis & The Playboys 2nd album. I’ll go for comic effect and say “the” song was “Count Me In.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/73 "2012-11-19T01:34:00Z")
As near as I can recollect, it was the Broadway cast recording of _Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street_, some Flanders and Swann, Tom Lehrer, and (most regrettably,) ]Loggins and Messina. But, yeah, at the actual _moment_, it was totally Angela Lansbury. Explains a lot, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/74 "2012-11-19T01:40:59Z")
Music of the Spheres. At least I wish it had been playing, 'cause I would like the association from so long ago. But in fact, we made our own music. Now it is called a Golden Oldie. Sorry, couldn’t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/75 "2012-11-19T02:52:18Z")
Round and Round by Ratt. We were listening to a Top 40 station, and while is was a few years from the charts, it was still popular. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/76 "2012-11-19T03:46:13Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > No music, but we had just seen “American Pie” in the theater. Her supposedly high morals were pretty easily swayed by an incredibly stupid movie and I lost a lot of respect for her because of that. I was happy that the error was in my favor, sure, but I almost immediately realized that things were better under the “…but blowjobs don’t count” rule. Any club that would have you as a member, eh? ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/77 "2012-11-19T03:56:39Z")
The radio was on and it was somewhere during either This Flight Tonight or Stairway To Heaven. They were on back to back. We weren’t. Heh! ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/78 "2012-11-19T04:00:31Z")
Losing my virginity? None. Getting to all the other bases? Staind. The album _Break the Cycle_. Not my choice, I swear. And also it was 2001. So there. [sub]I’m so ashamed[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/79 "2012-11-19T04:24:38Z")
It was November 13, 1987. I know this because David Letterman was on and Sonny and Cher were having a reunion and performing on the show. So the song was “I Got You Babe.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIggh9qr_u8) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069/80 "2012-11-19T07:23:46Z")
Closest I’ve gotten so far: Fooling around in the shower with my then-girlfriend back in '00. What was playing: A Celtic CD called _Celtic Awakening._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-was-playing-when-you-lost-your-virginity/641069.md?page=5)